bankable

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Studio executives and theater operators chalk up the improved prospects to several factors, including a better and more plentiful crop of bankable movies that are giving consumers more reason to trek to the multiplex.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

So the creative team instead relied on other selling points — namely, a hit filmmaker and a bankable star.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

The 55-year-old is seen as one of the most talented and bankable actresses in film, but she has indicated several times in recent years that she's keen to break away from the big screen.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

Notes were usually made to pay a given number of "dollars, in good, bankable dust."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various